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Philadelphia Timeline, 1822

January 24. Orphan's Asylum, corner Eighteenth and Cherry Streets, burned. Twenty-three children perished.

Excerpted from "Happenings in ye Olde Philadelphia 1680-1900" by Rudolph J. Walther, 1925, Walther Printing House, Philadelphia, PA